Nooooooooooooooooooo, you can never be done! Take a break if your burnt out, the bug will hit you again, over and over! I take breaks because I have other expensive passions but through it all, since age 9 I have returned to photography over and over and over again for over 40 years. The flame may flickr low right now, but it surely burn bright again and as others have said, your are truly gifted in this awesome passion we all enjoy!
MarkA
bruni wrote:
and this is my homage to Philippe's Lake Annecy series
Luka, nice to see you back again. Looking forward to see more.
Samy, beautiful cat shot nice b/w balance.
Nicola, very nice sun shots!
Brian, really good fall colour shots.
Colin, nice cat shots!
Buddy, nice giraffe shot. I got curious of the QC200f/4. It seems like a really good lens and I remember when I had the ais-version and was neber really happy with the results.
Leighton I really like your Nikki shots. You produce good stuuf with that lens.
Dan, you seem to take out the best of the 200mm though. But I must say your set with the 85/2 is really, really good. Love it!!
Ben, nice to see you back posting. Dont stop
Scott, gorgeous shots again!! I need to get out now!
Here´s a litlle something from me. This shot is from a hike we went on last summer. Right now I´m mostly sitting in front of the computer and having the urge to get out. Still not recovered from the flu so it will probably take a week more or so...
Creek from up in the swedish mountains. It was full of trout
Lens: 28mm f/2.8 ais. Trout Creek by Kristian Hagelin, on Flickr
rolubich wrote:
Thanks to all for the comments. Tomorrow I'm planning a major (for me) day trip to Auger Falls, which should be very productive.
I have both too and I run a little and quick home made test on a 42MP sensor, my copies behave like this:
- in the central area they are quite similar at f/4 but stopping down the QC looks a little sharper and more brilliant, in my opinion it has better contrast.
- in the outer areas the AIS is the clear winner, very uniform across the image starting from f/4 (even my copy of 180mm f/2.8 ED is not as good in the corners), while the QC needs to be stopped down a little and is never as good as the AIS.
I would use the AIS for landscape pictures and QC when outer part of the picture is not important or out of focus, in my opinion they are different (the optical scheme is quite different, not just a minor adjustment) but they are both very good lenses. ...Show more →
Wow, thanks for that! I never owned the Q so I wouldn't know the difference. But I've been very satisfied with the AiS. One reason might be that often as not, I use it for panos, where there's more than enough detail, especially with my 24MB sensor. And I agree, the sharpness out to the corners is important for a landscape tele.
I am so enjoying the images. Long live MF Nikkors.
Today's Captures: M and the 18 F/3.5 mostly. Chucky was shot with a 50 F/1.2, the name is a joke I have with my daughter. I cant decide if I like the color version or the BW of the first and last.
Looking a little slow, so here are a few more from yesterday to star page 6262.
Headed back out again today to see what I can conjure up! I took the S3 RF out yesterday too and am working through a 36 exposure roll of BW 400 Ilford. Someday I will figure it all out, but shooting a rangefinder is tricky business at first because one doesn't have a light meter, and one only has 1/1000 of a second to work with, so more to learn for me on it. I ended up using the DF metering to help me.
AM4L wrote:
Looking a little slow, so here are a few more from yesterday to star page 6262.
Headed back out again today to see what I can conjure up! I took the S3 RF out yesterday too and am working through a 36 exposure roll of BW 400 Ilford. Someday I will figure it all out, but shooting a rangefinder is tricky business at first because one doesn't have a light meter, and one only has 1/1000 of a second to work with, so more to learn for me on it. I ended up using the DF metering to help me.
Mark - check out the Sekonic Twinmate L-208 meter. Small, inexpensive and fits in your pocket or a lanyard around your neck. It actually comes with a hot shoe mount. That is what I use when shooting with my Nikon S2.
